News and reports from the Department of Labor.

News Release: MINNEAPOLIS – A Minnesota lawn care and snow removal company took advantage of more than 70 temporary foreign workers – charging them higher rent than allowed, requiring them to pay for their international transportation and demanding payment to keep their jobs – all in violation of the federal H-2B Visa program. The program helps supply employers with temporary foreign workers when sufficient numbers of U.S. workers are not available.

News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT) sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona demanding more information on the involvement of the American Federation of Teachers in the development of school reopening guidelines.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement on the April 2021 Employment Situation Report: “Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the American economy added 266,000 jobs in the month of April, and the unemployment rate was 6.1 percent, up marginally ...

News Release: FORT MYERS, FL – An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has recovered more than $36,000 in back wages for workers at a grocery store that denied them overtime pay required by the Fair Labor Standards Act.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement on the April 2021 Employment Situation Report: “Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the American economy added 266,000 jobs in the month of April, and the unemployment rate was 6.1 percent, up marginally ...

News Release: FORT MYERS, FL – An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has recovered more than $36,000 in back wages for workers at a grocery store that denied them overtime pay required by the Fair Labor Standards Act.

News Release: Dear Mr. Dodaro: As chairs of the House Committee on Education and Labor and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), we write to request the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct a review of target-date funds (TDFs). The employer-provided retirement system must...

News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the newly released April jobs report...

News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee doctors Reps. Greg Murphy (R-NC) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) penned a letter to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, demanding more information regarding the American Federation of Teachers’ influence on school reopening guidelines...

The US Labor Department published a one page proposed rule on May 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The US Labor Department published a two page rule on May 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking related to the adjudication of temporary need for employers seeking to hire for herding or production of livestock on the range jobs under the H-2A program.

News Release: WACO, TX – Moving machine parts have the potential to cause serious or fatal injuries when safety protections and procedures are ignored, and yet a Waco bath and shower manufacturer once again failed to provide its employees a safe and healthful workplace.

News Release: WICHITA, KS- The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division asks businesses in Kansas’ heavy construction industries to complete surveys to help the agency establish accurate prevailing wage rates, as required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts. Not limited to federally funded construction projects, the survey includes active heavy construction projects that took place in any of Kansas’ metropolitan counties between Jan. 1, 2020 and Dec. 31, 2020.

News Release: WACO, TX – Moving machine parts have the potential to cause serious or fatal injuries when safety protections and procedures are ignored, and yet a Waco bath and shower manufacturer once again failed to provide its employees a safe and healthful workplace.